schikore@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dan Schikore) (04/11/91)
I seem to be confused about the use of the heap in Turbo C. I understand that coreleft() will not actually return the amount of unused space on the heap. So how do I find out how much space is actually left? I seem to remember seeing somewhere how Turbo C finds the size block that you need, but now I can't find it. Can someone tell me: 1) Is the heap separated into paragraphs? For example, will a malloc(2) actually mark off 16 bytes? 2) Can I find out how much space is allocated to a specific pointer? (Actual space on the heap) 3) Can I find out how much space is left unused in the entire heap? If anything else I have said is wrong, I would appreciate any corrections. Thanks, -Dan Schikore schikore@mentor.cc.purdue.edu